I don't see the point in making trillion little threads for expansion packs, so I'll make one for now and then another down the road later when this gets too big. I'll update the upcoming packs with key info here and a series of links below on this page for ease of access to past packs.

You rule the workplace with The Sims 4 Get to Work! Actively control your Sims while they’re at work and determine whether your Sims are headed towards the big promotion or becoming the workplace menace. Jump to the rescue and save countless lives as a Doctor, torment your neighbors with mischievous inventions as a Scientist, or investigate crime scenes and crack the big cases as a Detective. If you’d rather be your own boss, create, customize, and manage your own retail businesses to become a Simoleonaire! You decide how your Sims get to work.

This pack is similar to:
Open For Business
Ambitions
Into The Future
A Base Game

This world is similar to:
Bluewater Village

Gameplay:
-Sims can now be controlled while doing several everyday jobs.
-Doctors can examine and treat patients, perform surgery and deliver babies.
-Detectives can give tickets, investigate crime scenes, interrogate Sims and arrest criminals.
-A Scientist can collect unique specimens and create crazy inventions.
-Aliens can be sought out and an Alien dimension can be discovered.
-Sims can now own and operate retail businesses, opening up the opportunity for new and unique shops.
-Sims can create custom clothing to sell to others at a boutique.

-Doctors can make house calls.

-Sims can learn photography.
-Sims can learn baking.

*Sims can now dine outside of home
*Sims can knit scarves, and maybe create other garments.
*Sims can customize employee outfits.
*Sims can get sick, and contract illness from other Sims. Medicine can be orders from home.
*Sims can give birth at the hospital lot.

Was hoping for an EP to flesh out families but this is netherless a step in the right direction. It's about bloody time we got businesses back but i'm still skeptical of its implementation, especially after whatever that train wreck was in the Sims 3 store. It better be like the Sims 2.

"Find something to believe in, and find it for yourself. When you do, pass it on to the future".

I would be thrilled with this EP if I weren't so disappointed about it not being a family-oriented type of pack that would add back toddlers. OFB was my second favorite Sims 2 EP (Seasons was my favorite) so I'm happy to see a similar EP for TS4, but I just feel like toddlers should be a higher priority at this point. Unless they're planning on adding toddlers in a GP instead of an EP. Then I'm fine with this being the first EP.

We don't, but we have no reason to have a hospital or police station otherwise.

We had a hospital and medical career in TS3, and we could tell our medical sims how to work while inside *in general terms* and they also had some stuff they could do outside the hospital. Same applied to police station. So there is no particular reason to believe we can actually go into those buildings and see sims working in a police station or hospital in TS4

"You can do refraction by raymarching through the depth buffer" (c. Reddeyfish 2017)

We had a hospital and medical career in TS3, and we could tell our medical sims how to work while inside *in general terms* and they also had some stuff they could do outside the hospital. Same applied to police station. So there is no particular reason to believe we can actually go into those buildings and see sims working in a police station or hospital in TS4

The trailer released earlier suggests that we can go inside of these buildings and work in them. Unless they completely staged the interiors (which will cause a Massive outrage on release...) then you can go inside of these buildings.

Now, to what extent we can go inside. Is it like you say, you get an opportunity and that is only when you can go inside. Could be, we really don't know much of it yet outside of what the trailer revealed.

There are some Sims being treated with medical equipment, and being patted down/locked up at the police station (we'll not speak of the "gameplay" we saw at the boutique - looked more like talking if anything) - that suggests that there is gameplay to be had at these places. Lots of medical equipement being thrown about and I imagine we'll watch a mother give birth behind a giant blur.

Was that your disagree up there or does someone else want to argue the point? :D

Hey it has 3 disagrees! I did disagree with it only because the video suggests that we can go to work and do stuff there. To what depth though...I mean that's a good point that will only be answered with more information.

I mean maybe it is a rabbit hole that can only be accessed at certain times and once or twice a week a pop-up comes up that says...

"Your sim has a surgery to perform! Would you like to go perform this surgery?"
"Your sim has an interrogation to perform! Would you like to go?"

etc etc

Or maybe they are fully functioning buildings with loads of gameplay opportunities.

Well mentioning a disagree is a sure recipe for attracting others, but if someone has seen screenplay of a sim IN a hospital doing stuff, then I can't argue. I mean we totally had TS2 toddlers spinning round from ceiling fans, like in the screenshots, didn't we?

"You can do refraction by raymarching through the depth buffer" (c. Reddeyfish 2017)

This is a gameplay trailers. Things are often presented in a way to make the presentation more so than what it is, but when you break down the elements, it's clear that there's gameplay available for Sims who work in hospitals (like a giant surgical machine and a Sim sitting on one of those medical beds - not to mention Sims with various illnesses), etc.

All we need to know how connected it all is and how it's all tied together, but I don't doubt an open hospital in an expansion pack about working.

Well mentioning a disagree is a sure recipe for attracting others, but if someone has seen screenplay of a sim IN a hospital doing stuff, then I can't argue. I mean we totally had TS2 toddlers spinning round from ceiling fans, like in the screenshots, didn't we?

Time for your Sims to Get to Work!
FEBRUARY 4 BY SIMGURU RYANCOMMENT
The First Expansion Pack for The Sims 4 is Coming Soon

Hey Simmers!

We’re excited to announce our first expansion pack, The Sims 4 Get to Work! With three brand new active careers, each complete with a new fully playable career venue, there are plenty of ways for you to fulfil your Sims ambitions. But that’s not all. You can even create your Sims’ own retail business, taking advantage of your Sims’ skills and hobbies to earn those Simoleons. There’s a lot to discover in The Sims 4 Get to Work when it releases in April 2015, but in the meantime, here are seven important things you should know:

1. Be a Doctor: Your Sim can now spend their work day saving lives, treating patients, performing emergency surgery, and for the first time ever, delivering babies!

2. Combat Crime: Investigate crime scenes, interrogate Sims, and arrest criminals while you work your way from Cadet all the way up to the Chief of Police.

3. Experiment and Invent: Scientists spend their days building crazy inventions and collecting unique specimens for diabolical creations like the Sim Ray. Your Sim will have to decide whether they’ll use their inventions to help or torment their fellow Sims.

4. Create Unique Retail Businesses: Create any number and type of retail business you want, including bakeries, clothing boutiques, art galleries, bookstores, and much more. You can customize every facet of your business with Build Mode; select what items to sell, manage your employees, and even upsell customers!

5. New Career Venues: All new career venues and neighbourhoods like the Hospital, Police Station, and Science Lab are fully stocked with brand new objects to help your Sims achieve success! Or head down to the Retail District to check in on the many retail businesses you’ve created and find your Sims true calling.

6. Learn New Skills: Check out a whole new set of skills that will allow your Sims to create even more unique objects. Sims can now capture the picture-perfect photo or bake and decorate a delicious treat with the new Photography and Baking skills. Whatever your Sims make can be proudly displayed at home or sold to earn a few extra Simoleons.

7. Discover Aliens: Aliens have landed and walk amongst us! Find out which Sims are truly out of this world and discover the mysterious Alien dimension!

So get your Sim out of bed and get ready to rule the workplace! The Sims 4 Get to Work is coming out this April for both PC & Mac.

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